In class today I discussed Chen Chieh-jen's Lingchi - Echoes of a Historical Photograph, 2002, stills and extracts of which are available from the Taipei Biennial, where it was first shown as a three-screen installation. His take on Georges Bataille's The Tears of Eros (1961) is quite interesting, especially given the way in which he concurs with Bataille's ecstatic reading of the 1905 photo yet re-politicises the image.
The mashup trailer for Titanic 2 was made by Robert Blankeneim and I agree with the comment that the mashup process is itself quite oneiric in that it takes, say, Leonardo di Caprio's entire body of work almost as if it were the day residue for the production of the dream/mashup.
As a fine example of Youtube culture, Titanic 2 combines the tradition of the mashup, as for example in Christian Marclay's Up and Out, with that of the fake trailer, as for example in Francesco Vezzoli's Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005).
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http://www.maintrendgallery.com.tw/en/artist.php?arsn=11
you can also find some Chen Chieh-Jen's artworks here.
He always be aware of historical trauma between China and Taiwan, also be aware of force relations which is brought by camera.
As an aside, if anyone's interested in mash-up culture I recommend a look at Scary Mary or Shining, both excellent evocations of the potency of cinematic convention as a signifier of genre (music, tone, cutting style, voice-over etc).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuaYk-yDAgc
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